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should the city cancel the new york city marathon? mayor michael bloomberg ignited a firestorm of controversy when he decided earlier this week to let the marathon go on as scheduled this sunday. the mayor is a man who doesn't often change his mind, but tonight, he did. stephanie gosk has the reasons why. >> reporter: in a city devastated by this storm, holding a road race through five battered boroughs finally just seemed like the wrong idea. >> marathon ceases to be about running and it was all about how best to aid new york city. >> reporter: it was a decision that left some runners disappointed. >> i feel for all the people that -- that had problems, but you don't pull something -- you don't pull the plug at the last minute. he could have made that decision days and days ago. >> reporter: but many city residents relieved. >> i think there's a thin line between demonstrating resiliency and being insensitive. >> reporter: the reversal came as a surprise, just earlier today mayor michael bloomberg had defended his decision to hold th
should the city cancel the new york city marathon? mayor michael bloomberg ignited a firestorm of controversy when he decided earlier this week to let the marathon go on as scheduled this sunday. the mayor is a man who doesn't often change his mind, but tonight, he did. stephanie gosk has the reasons why. >> reporter: in a city devastated by this storm, holding a road race through five battered boroughs finally just seemed like the wrong idea. >> marathon ceases to be about running...
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here in new york city, commerce has been crippled. and power is not expected to be restored in many areas until next week. i.h.s. global predicts that if the areas affected by sandy lose a quarter of their output for just two days, it would knock about $25 billion off u.s. economic growth in the fourth quarter. that could be as much a 0.6%. but longer-term, some of the financial losses should be recovered by repair and rebuilding efforts. home improvement stores like home depot and lowes will likely get a boost in sales. many construction jobs will be created to rebuild homes and businesses. and governments will be spending huge amounts of money to repair subways, roads, and bridges so all of those efforts should help boost econoc activity early next year. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> susie: joining us now for a closer look at sandy's economic impact, mark zandi, chief economist at moody's analytics. you know, mark, people often hear that when there's a sdater like zandi, that it's actually a boost to the economy. is that goin
here in new york city, commerce has been crippled. and power is not expected to be restored in many areas until next week. i.h.s. global predicts that if the areas affected by sandy lose a quarter of their output for just two days, it would knock about $25 billion off u.s. economic growth in the fourth quarter. that could be as much a 0.6%. but longer-term, some of the financial losses should be recovered by repair and rebuilding efforts. home improvement stores like home depot and lowes will...
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everyone is saying, well, maybe this is going to be our wake-up call and right now in new york city, the debate is over how much to increase fares in public transit and they -- the metrotransity authority wants to increase the price of riding a subway and the price of riding trains quite a bit, and so how does this make sense? we're supposedly having a wake-up call and we're making it harder for people to use public transit and that's because we don't have the resources that we need. >> you've been out on the devastation, why? >> i'm writing a book and the documentary to go with it and we were filming in the rockaways in staten island and in red hook, and also in the relief hubs where you just see a tremendous number of volunteers organized by occupy wall street. they call it occupy sandy. >> really? >> what i found is that the generosity is tremendous. i saw a friend last night and i asked her whether she'd been involved in the hurricane relief. they have my car, i hope they get it back. if you see it, tell me. people are tremendous. so one of the things that you find out in a disas
everyone is saying, well, maybe this is going to be our wake-up call and right now in new york city, the debate is over how much to increase fares in public transit and they -- the metrotransity authority wants to increase the price of riding a subway and the price of riding trains quite a bit, and so how does this make sense? we're supposedly having a wake-up call and we're making it harder for people to use public transit and that's because we don't have the resources that we need. >>...
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>>neil: a new round of gas rationing in new york city and new jersey and now new york puts it in place tomorrow proving that the sandy-related problems are far from over. the executive director of new jersey gasoline convenience store association, how will it help things out? >>guest: right now, the odd and even that governor christie put in place in new jersey was a very good idea. i was very skeptical when he did it. my members were skeptical. i kind of thought, gee, this is not going to work, but he was right, i was wrong, it is work ing. a lot of folks are saying we should keep it going longer because quote have gas disruptions going longer than we thought. do you hear that? how likely will this last? >> again, here i was wrong. i was telling my members i have been telling the press, i have been talking to my people that are trying to help us out here, and i thought this whole thing was going toize by the end of last weekend and we would return to a normalcy right now. that has not happened. we have seen the lines diminish. however, there are still about 75 percent or 80 percent of
>>neil: a new round of gas rationing in new york city and new jersey and now new york puts it in place tomorrow proving that the sandy-related problems are far from over. the executive director of new jersey gasoline convenience store association, how will it help things out? >>guest: right now, the odd and even that governor christie put in place in new jersey was a very good idea. i was very skeptical when he did it. my members were skeptical. i kind of thought, gee, this is not...
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put their money into new york city and let new york city take care of its own. >> want to talk to all of you al. but let me first -- craig, spoke to j.r. martinez, the guy who won "dancing with the stars" last year. well, he was going to run in that marathon, and he talked now to j.-martinez, and about the mayor who marrily makes a misstep. mayor bloomberg but got plenty of heat. here's craig. >> some people said you shouldn't run the marathon. there's an awful lot of small businesses that depend on these people. >> as thousands suffered without heat and electricity, new york city mayor michael bloomberg defied criticism to allow the 434th new york city marathon to go on, despite a backdrop of devastation. >> bloomberg is pulling the cops off for the marathon which the rest of us don't understand why. >> we have communities in need, and to turn around and show disrespect, like running a marathon, this is the reality of what's going on in new york city right now. >> the mayor finally releapt but not before the new york post-published pictures of marathon generators with the power to ru
put their money into new york city and let new york city take care of its own. >> want to talk to all of you al. but let me first -- craig, spoke to j.r. martinez, the guy who won "dancing with the stars" last year. well, he was going to run in that marathon, and he talked now to j.-martinez, and about the mayor who marrily makes a misstep. mayor bloomberg but got plenty of heat. here's craig. >> some people said you shouldn't run the marathon. there's an awful lot of...
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so, no new york city today this was a genuinely good sign. traffic lights in lower manhattan slowly starting to turn on again. across the hudson, however, many people are still under duress. in hoboken, nearly a quarter of the city is under water, street after street, flooded and most of the city is without power. 20,000 people are stranded in their homes tonight. and after repeated appeals from the mayor, the national guard finally showed up today, providing a safe passage out. my abc news colleague alex perez spoke to people who had been trapped. >> it's scary. you don't know how long you're going to be stuck here. you don't know how you're going to get out of town. >> you can't find out what's going on anywhere else. we've been in a little island. >> reporter: elsewhere in the city, fire trucks were delivering food and supplies to people still sheltering in place. people charging their ipods, even coffee machines by generator. in at land take city today, new jersey governor chris christie and president obama toured the state's battered coa
so, no new york city today this was a genuinely good sign. traffic lights in lower manhattan slowly starting to turn on again. across the hudson, however, many people are still under duress. in hoboken, nearly a quarter of the city is under water, street after street, flooded and most of the city is without power. 20,000 people are stranded in their homes tonight. and after repeated appeals from the mayor, the national guard finally showed up today, providing a safe passage out. my abc news...
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new york city took a tremendous hit from the storm. we have over 24 people dead out of an estimated 61 nationwide. two of the largest hospitals in our city were evacuate. i toured nyu medical yesterday. they were talking about during the dark of the night in the storm they really saw courageous work on behalf of the nurses and others of the the hospital. they were carrying newborns out. fema has been coordinating the major disaster relief the. there have been phone calls every day for the new york delegation about how they are responding. there is a great need for food and water in lower manhattan. when you go below 37 street, it is a total blackout. there are no traffic lights or phones. no way to communicate. when you are down there you can not send an e-mail or make a phone call. people are helping each other and directing traffic. the small businesses are afraid that some of them will go out of business because they operate on a fragile business line. their produce, they're derry, their stock in restaurants and small stores, it is
new york city took a tremendous hit from the storm. we have over 24 people dead out of an estimated 61 nationwide. two of the largest hospitals in our city were evacuate. i toured nyu medical yesterday. they were talking about during the dark of the night in the storm they really saw courageous work on behalf of the nurses and others of the the hospital. they were carrying newborns out. fema has been coordinating the major disaster relief the. there have been phone calls every day for the new...
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the mayor's office in new york city talked about, use text in were of you can. leave the phone calls to 911, the really important calls. otherwise use text in order data connections to gather information. >> did it get flooded with information? >> usage was pretty tremendous. whenever you have an issue where there is a lot of people who need information, you find that the networks get flooded. i saw the numbers up to 15,000% increase on some websites. in a lot of the applications stores, the apps that ran to the top or ones that give access information, or the mobil flashlight. -- mobile flashlight. there was a surge in traffic, but i did not see numbers that suggested there was a significant amount of call blocking or dropping. the networks handled the search pretty well. >> we're taping this interview on november 50. i was in lower manhattan last night. i had a lot of trouble connecting on my ipad and on my cell phone. is that still do to sandy? >> there are still areas -- areas that do not have power in the boroughs and lower manhattan that to not have power.
the mayor's office in new york city talked about, use text in were of you can. leave the phone calls to 911, the really important calls. otherwise use text in order data connections to gather information. >> did it get flooded with information? >> usage was pretty tremendous. whenever you have an issue where there is a lot of people who need information, you find that the networks get flooded. i saw the numbers up to 15,000% increase on some websites. in a lot of the applications...
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the fact is new york city is without bottled water. how come fema didn't pre-position bottled water. they don't have generators. what is this gasoline back-up. what do we have federal government for? if they can't get us gasoline for a hurricane predicted three or four days in advance. they have an election going on, people don't want to say that, but i think fe ma has dropped the ball, certainly maybe as big as katrina because they had more warning here and the situation isn't as big as katrina. >> neil: when you have so many immediate responses of fema, they are doing a great job. >> come on. >> rerealize it's not a great job. the media coverage which gives us a sense have fema past versus katrina, the immediate response then, not so good. we can leave the politics whether there is a double standard there? >> there is a double standard. >> neil: but the coverage period? >> there is a double standard and reality people suffer as a result of it because the obama administration isn't being held accountable. if they were held accountable
the fact is new york city is without bottled water. how come fema didn't pre-position bottled water. they don't have generators. what is this gasoline back-up. what do we have federal government for? if they can't get us gasoline for a hurricane predicted three or four days in advance. they have an election going on, people don't want to say that, but i think fe ma has dropped the ball, certainly maybe as big as katrina because they had more warning here and the situation isn't as big as...
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the city of new york infrastructure or. the infrastructure the power infrastructure of long island or new jersey for instance. the line. or my line and your very. something that something traditionally our community really reluctant to do that superfund. but it's a choice it's a choice we make or give me just final question for you i want to talk about something that a whole lot of people aren't aware of and that is that during the storm the path of superstorm sandy there were twenty six nuclear plants i know at least two of them had to shut be shut down part of them out to be shut down the surrounding areas put on high alert talk a little bit about the effect of this and what people who are planning people who are engineers should take into account. i think one of the things that a disaster. and a half ago shows is that when nuclear power fails really dramatic. and it tends to stand on a time when the rest of society is having problems so let's imagine thank goodness it didn't happen but let's imagine that one of the beach
the city of new york infrastructure or. the infrastructure the power infrastructure of long island or new jersey for instance. the line. or my line and your very. something that something traditionally our community really reluctant to do that superfund. but it's a choice it's a choice we make or give me just final question for you i want to talk about something that a whole lot of people aren't aware of and that is that during the storm the path of superstorm sandy there were twenty six...
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here is what amazes me, the last i knew, staten island is still part of the city of new york city. someone should be asking this question, how many urban search-and-rescue teams have fema deployed to staten island? how many urban search-and-rescue teams have been deployed to long island to where the homes have been burned? they still in a "response" mode. i know no one wants to criticize anyone and i don't want to criticize fema because they have to do what the state and local governments ask them to do. seriously, you will hold a marathon while you still are trying to get people out of buried homes? something is wrong with that. another thing, i wrote an article, and we talked about there and charles payne and i talked about new yorkers needed to chill because this is going to take a long time. i get that people are suffering. after how many disasters, how many disasters is it going to take for people to recognize the federal government, state and local governments, are not, cannot, and as we see, will not be this to take care of you? this is driving me nuts. >>neil: those commend
here is what amazes me, the last i knew, staten island is still part of the city of new york city. someone should be asking this question, how many urban search-and-rescue teams have fema deployed to staten island? how many urban search-and-rescue teams have been deployed to long island to where the homes have been burned? they still in a "response" mode. i know no one wants to criticize anyone and i don't want to criticize fema because they have to do what the state and local...
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put their money into new york city and let new york city take care of its own. >> want to talk to all of you al. but let me first -- craig, spoke to j.r. martinez, the guy who won "dancing with the stars" last year. well, he was going to run in that marathon, and he talked now to j.-martinez, and about the mayor who marrily makes a misstep. mayor bloomberg but got plenty of heat. here's craig. >> some people said you shouldn't run the marathon. there's an awful lot of small businesses that depend on these people. >> as thousands suffered without heat and electricity, new york city mayor michael bloomberg defied criticism to allow the 434th new york city marathon to go on, despite a backdrop of devastation. >> bloomberg is pulling the cops off for the marathon which the rest of us don't understand why. >> we have communities in need, and to turn around and show disrespect, like running a marathon, this is the reality of what's going on in new york city right now. >> the mayor finally releapt but not before the new york post-published pictures of marathon generators with the power to ru
put their money into new york city and let new york city take care of its own. >> want to talk to all of you al. but let me first -- craig, spoke to j.r. martinez, the guy who won "dancing with the stars" last year. well, he was going to run in that marathon, and he talked now to j.-martinez, and about the mayor who marrily makes a misstep. mayor bloomberg but got plenty of heat. here's craig. >> some people said you shouldn't run the marathon. there's an awful lot of...
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jersey to new york city, was flooded. computation is an important part of the economy and culture in that region. the damage to our highways, transit system caused severe congestion stranding new jersey and creating delays for miles. transportation in new jersey has an impact on more than just new jersey residents. sandy affected anyone who rides our rail for drive through our state or uses products. i will be working with this committee to rebuild new jersey's transportation infrastructure to make it stronger and more resilient in addition to our infrastructure in at least two cases. flooding from sandy damage the superfund sites, leading to potential release of toxic pollution into the environment. i have a letter on the way to the epa to conduct a thorough investigation of the storm's impact on sites throughout the region and i am also introducing superfund emergency response requests which requires the epa to perform an assessment of superfund sites following any natural disaster and allows congress to appropriate eme
jersey to new york city, was flooded. computation is an important part of the economy and culture in that region. the damage to our highways, transit system caused severe congestion stranding new jersey and creating delays for miles. transportation in new jersey has an impact on more than just new jersey residents. sandy affected anyone who rides our rail for drive through our state or uses products. i will be working with this committee to rebuild new jersey's transportation infrastructure to...
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in new york city i'm also the finance chairman of the new york city council and just this week we allocated $500 million, 300 million for health an hospitals corporation and 200 million for schools construction authority so we can rebuild our schools and the hospitals that have been displaced. bellview and cone any island. melissa: do you think it makes sense to rebuild in the same spot? that was sort of the theme of the segment that we did before you? we're talking about the fact that federal tax dollars will have to come in and you know, replace what has been devastated there you about in the future do you think that same kind of insurance, federal insurance that encourages people to build in these spots makes sense? >> well, many of these buildings we have no choice but to rebuild because they're already there. what we have to do is we have to build smarter, wiser, and we can't, we have to watch out how high we build on the water. we may want to use steel walls instead of cop create walls. and we have to really maybe, build sand dunes so we can protect our citizens of new york city from
in new york city i'm also the finance chairman of the new york city council and just this week we allocated $500 million, 300 million for health an hospitals corporation and 200 million for schools construction authority so we can rebuild our schools and the hospitals that have been displaced. bellview and cone any island. melissa: do you think it makes sense to rebuild in the same spot? that was sort of the theme of the segment that we did before you? we're talking about the fact that federal...
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upset about the new york city marathon that was going to go on tomorrow. can't count how many expletives i've heard. how do you feel about the mayor deciding to cancel it. >> excellent. people need hotels to stay in and have people come here for a marathon is pathetic. he's pathetic. >> reporter: initially the reasoning was, it has been going on for decades and really rallies and invigorates the community. how think there is something else that can be done to rally the community, other than a marathon, that you would suggest. >> i suggest let's get everyone together and come out and really help. officials come out here and see how we live before you worry about the marathon, 2, 3 weeks from now, if possible but not now. and we know the death toll is 200, not 19. >> 22 is what we have on record, but we can tell you as well, thank you very much, for your time, and we can tell you a lot of residents told us they think the number is much higher. back to you. >> thank you and mayor bloomberg intimated as much yesterday in a press statement, before he cancelled
upset about the new york city marathon that was going to go on tomorrow. can't count how many expletives i've heard. how do you feel about the mayor deciding to cancel it. >> excellent. people need hotels to stay in and have people come here for a marathon is pathetic. he's pathetic. >> reporter: initially the reasoning was, it has been going on for decades and really rallies and invigorates the community. how think there is something else that can be done to rally the community,...
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york city marathon, and we want to show you what it looks like as new york city struggles to get back on its feet, and back to work. traffic was backed up in the morning during rush hour, those without cars had to line up for public transportation for buses for a very long time this morning, just to get to work. during the evening rush hour tonight, our cameras captured a scene of chaos as the crowd of commuters tried to crowd into a subway station, up and running for the first time since the storm. we have seen it before, the line before the order and chaos in an urban area is often a moving target. frustration is really rising among people who just want gasoline. nbc's katy tur is live in new jersey at a gas station where demand has been heavy all evening. katy, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, this is not a gas shortage but a power shortage, meaning stations either can't pump their gas or get supplies. here at the sonoco, they ran out about 4:00 this afternoon, that you -- is why you're seeing the cones here behind me 10,000 gallons gone here. they were coming in on fumes,
york city marathon, and we want to show you what it looks like as new york city struggles to get back on its feet, and back to work. traffic was backed up in the morning during rush hour, those without cars had to line up for public transportation for buses for a very long time this morning, just to get to work. during the evening rush hour tonight, our cameras captured a scene of chaos as the crowd of commuters tried to crowd into a subway station, up and running for the first time since the...
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close to 1 million in new york city alone. 80% of new york city subway service has been restored, but it may be days before gas shortages are rer stored and the national guard has been called in to keep order at gas stations. the storm has caused an estimated $20 billion in damages, plus an estimated $50 billion in economic losses to the region. the state of new jersey was hit hardest, and for more on that, we're going to ben tracy in tuckerton beach, good morning, ben. >> reporter: good morning, bob. this is what so many neighborhoods all along the new jersey shore look like. they're almost frozeep in time. there is really no recovery going on here yet because these areas have just been too dangerous to get into until now. this weekend was really the first time that so many people who live around here are coming back to see how damaged their houses are. many are finding they have no home at all. across new jersey, you're still talking about nearly a million people without power, and that's becoming a real issue, because temperature here's at night are falling into the low 30s, so it'
close to 1 million in new york city alone. 80% of new york city subway service has been restored, but it may be days before gas shortages are rer stored and the national guard has been called in to keep order at gas stations. the storm has caused an estimated $20 billion in damages, plus an estimated $50 billion in economic losses to the region. the state of new jersey was hit hardest, and for more on that, we're going to ben tracy in tuckerton beach, good morning, ben. >> reporter: good...
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so we saw that 911 worked well, and i think the mayor's office in new york city talked about, boy, use text where you can. i think that's a good message to deliver to consumers. use texting wherever you can, leave the phone calls to 911, to the really important calls. and otherwise use texting or use your data connections to gather information. >> host: did the spectrum get flooded with information and overloading? >> guest: sure. their, i mean, usage was pretty tremendous, and we found this out wherever you have an issue where there's people who need information, you find that the networks really get flooded. i saw numbers two, three, four, five hundred to 15,000% increases on some web sites. and you saw in a lot of the application stores that the apps that quickly ran to the top were those that gave you access to information or the mobile flash light, i think, was one of the other ones that really found sort of a lot of people downloading it. but there was a surge in traffic; but i didn't see numbers that suggested there was a significant amount of call blocking or dropping. i think
so we saw that 911 worked well, and i think the mayor's office in new york city talked about, boy, use text where you can. i think that's a good message to deliver to consumers. use texting wherever you can, leave the phone calls to 911, to the really important calls. and otherwise use texting or use your data connections to gather information. >> host: did the spectrum get flooded with information and overloading? >> guest: sure. their, i mean, usage was pretty tremendous, and we...
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you might remember bernie, the new york city police commissioner nominated by president bush to be part of his department of all land -- homeland security. they didn't vett him carefully because later he pleaded tuilty to -- guilty to fraud. or the designation as secretary of labor that had to be withdrawn the next week because a woman gave her some money and it may or may not have been illegal. but she had misled the vetters, and they threw her under the bus. after the governor romney campaign, there may be a new set of questions. it is a difficult thing if you are nominated to a prestigious post as an officer of the united states. the most important part happens in the senate. for instance, bill clinton wanted to support -- appoint robert reich. robert founded intimidating to be at hearings in front of the senate. he wrote a book called lost in the cabinet. these are sometimes known as murder boards. you can see why it is called that. he is explaining in his book, the preparation and his aides helping him get to the nomination process and practicing with him. i am planning for a confi
you might remember bernie, the new york city police commissioner nominated by president bush to be part of his department of all land -- homeland security. they didn't vett him carefully because later he pleaded tuilty to -- guilty to fraud. or the designation as secretary of labor that had to be withdrawn the next week because a woman gave her some money and it may or may not have been illegal. but she had misled the vetters, and they threw her under the bus. after the governor romney...
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no bus ride in new york is ever free. there is always a price that will be paid. [ laughter ] mayor bloomberg announced that all cars coming into new york city via the bridge musts have a minimum of three people in them. unless one of the people is very, very fat in which case, two people but no sodas. [ laughter ] to me, i think the best sign that we're recovering from the hurricane is the fact that this morning, george stephanopoulos was discussing last night's shocking elimination of sabrina bryan from "dancing with the stars." i think that means the worst is behind us. unless you are louis, then the worst is still ahead of you. unfortunately, the brooklyn nets had to cancel their big home opener tomorrow night. good news is, if the nets can keep this up for eight more months, could have their first undefeated season. [ applause ] and then -- the kardashians will be rolling in. i want to wish everyone here a happy halloween. in case you hadn't noticed, tonight, i am dressed as a slutty talk show host. i see a guy here
no bus ride in new york is ever free. there is always a price that will be paid. [ laughter ] mayor bloomberg announced that all cars coming into new york city via the bridge musts have a minimum of three people in them. unless one of the people is very, very fat in which case, two people but no sodas. [ laughter ] to me, i think the best sign that we're recovering from the hurricane is the fact that this morning, george stephanopoulos was discussing last night's shocking elimination of sabrina...
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jessie was the daughter of john kest, the executive director of a new york city advocacy group, new york communities for change. on its website today, jessie was eulogized as an amazing young woman. she was just 24 years old. her dog, max, was hurt by survived. lauren abraham was a makeup artist, also 24, in her queens neighborhood of richmond hill, the storm brought down a power line and it began to spark. the streets were drenched with rain and somehow lauren touched the line, according to police. rescuers were unable to reach her for half an hour. on the flood-ravaged streets of staten island, an off duty police officer began taking his family to safety from inside his home. 24-year-old arthur caspershock faced floodwaters racing into his house. according to an official police account, he'd taken seven people, including a 15-month-old from the attic to safety and was going back in to check the basement. he never came out. his body was recovered 12 hours later. and as those same floodwaters surged through the streets, a horrific event unfolded. a mother had managed to unstrap her two c
jessie was the daughter of john kest, the executive director of a new york city advocacy group, new york communities for change. on its website today, jessie was eulogized as an amazing young woman. she was just 24 years old. her dog, max, was hurt by survived. lauren abraham was a makeup artist, also 24, in her queens neighborhood of richmond hill, the storm brought down a power line and it began to spark. the streets were drenched with rain and somehow lauren touched the line, according to...
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we're one of the five boroughs of new york city. i think once the word got out about the unspeak about devastation here, the response came. and our residents themselves spoke up to the media and reached out for help. >> i think we're showing some pictures from your website, from your news right now, you captured some really startling images of the devastation of the super storm. you have lived there all of your life, what has it been like for you, what are you seeing? >> staten island, even though it's part of new york city, it is really a borough of neighborhoods, and one of our headlines the other day was will staten island ever be the same? will life ever be the same? if feels like it won't be. some communities were wiped out, lived ruined, changed forever. i was walking around an area today just seeing people trying to get their lives back together and salvage any belongings, your heart goes out to them. >> claire, thank you so much, managing social editor, they have been doing potentially prize winning reporting. >>> erin burne
we're one of the five boroughs of new york city. i think once the word got out about the unspeak about devastation here, the response came. and our residents themselves spoke up to the media and reached out for help. >> i think we're showing some pictures from your website, from your news right now, you captured some really startling images of the devastation of the super storm. you have lived there all of your life, what has it been like for you, what are you seeing? >> staten...
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york city on the one hand and new york state on the other hand should adapt to it. as part of that study, we in the certa study, we were making a case study in which we had 100-year flood or storm surge hitting new york city. and with a lot of help of the engineering department students at columbia university, we came up with a very detailed analy s analysis. and it showed that the subway tunnels would flood within 40 minutes and so on. it was eerily, incredibly true what happened four days ago. right down to the detail that the brooklyn battery tunnel would be entirely flooded, the queens midtown town only partly flooded. i mean, it's terrible to be right. the point is here that this is information that was available one to two years ago now. and it shows that just reducing scientific, technical result is not enough. >> right. >> the political process has not taken notice of the information that we were charged to produce for them. >> and this is the fundamental issue that we have up and down this -- this issue specifically on climate but also disaster, right, eric
york city on the one hand and new york state on the other hand should adapt to it. as part of that study, we in the certa study, we were making a case study in which we had 100-year flood or storm surge hitting new york city. and with a lot of help of the engineering department students at columbia university, we came up with a very detailed analy s analysis. and it showed that the subway tunnels would flood within 40 minutes and so on. it was eerily, incredibly true what happened four days...
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public transportation in new york city is starting to come back. some subway lines and amtrak are going to run on a schedule. at least there was some public transportation to help them. the congestion eased a bit thanks to a car pool rule. that made a difference. all three major airports were open today for the first time since the storm hit at limited capacity. well, the military used cargo jets to fly power trucks and crews from california to try to help new york clean up sandy. 69 vehicles from southern california were flown in from the west coast. they also sent generators and water pumps to help with clean-ups. the navy will be on stand by in case the state government asks for them help. and now, picking up the pieces from sandy. staten island is a 60 square mile portion of new york city and it suffered some of the worst devastation from the storm. 19 of the city's deaths happened on staten island and today, i toured some of the hardest hit areas and spoke with residents just beginning to pick up the piecing of their shattered lives. this is q
public transportation in new york city is starting to come back. some subway lines and amtrak are going to run on a schedule. at least there was some public transportation to help them. the congestion eased a bit thanks to a car pool rule. that made a difference. all three major airports were open today for the first time since the storm hit at limited capacity. well, the military used cargo jets to fly power trucks and crews from california to try to help new york clean up sandy. 69 vehicles...
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i'm melissa harris perry coming to you from horockefeller city, the new york city still reeling from the effects of superstorm sandy and her landfall earlier this week. today, 2.5 million people remain without power and at least 40 new yorkers have died in the storms aftermath. almost half of those deaths were in just one of the burroughs that make up the five burroughs of new york, staten island. now, this striking image was captured by an nbc producer and staten island. sandy's wake left the debris in the backyard of john della rosa's severely smashed home. smashed plates mingled with halloween decorations. overwhelmed by the devastation, rocked by the power of the storm, he is left to pick up the pieces of the storm surge which sent more than 8 feet of water into the neighborhood. he is also left to grieve the losses of his next door neighbors, the foundation and stairs are all that remain of the dresh family home. george dresh and his 13-year-old daughter, angela died, when the storm surge came through their home. george's wife and angela's mother, patricia, remain in the hospita
i'm melissa harris perry coming to you from horockefeller city, the new york city still reeling from the effects of superstorm sandy and her landfall earlier this week. today, 2.5 million people remain without power and at least 40 new yorkers have died in the storms aftermath. almost half of those deaths were in just one of the burroughs that make up the five burroughs of new york, staten island. now, this striking image was captured by an nbc producer and staten island. sandy's wake left the...